Danskcolin: Friday November 1st 2024 "Look after your thumb, and your thumb will look after you!"

Our bedrooms are the heart of our homes, aren't they. And a bit of a refuge from the world and its tiresome aspects, not to mention its tiresome people (!).

And in a similar kind of a way, it could be also a refuge from room-mates, flat-mates etc, as it was for this lovely local guy in the lovely Worcestershire village of Bell End, as reported today in Onion News West Worcestershire print edition, page 94.

Health warning: Be patient - yes, it's on page 94, but you'll be able to "thumb through to it" eventually (!).

Don't break your thumb doing it, though, obviously, or you'll have the indignity of going to your local "thumb clinic", seeing a "thumb-ologist", and maybe even have to go through some dumb thumb replacement operation (!).

Remember - keep your thumb in peak condition at all times - you never know when you may have to impress a date or a potential date with it.

Poor Rothwell !!!!! A rookie-error if ever I heard one!!

As an old hand at double-jointed displays, I can say that I always come out with at the very least a 10 minute speech and drum-roll before I reveal my special talent in this area - and Lois says it's the only reason she agreed to marry me, so it paid off, to put it mildly!

as an "old hand" I only reveal my double-jointed

thumbs after a 10-minute speech and drum-roll as minimum

But what a "doozy" of a story to read at the breakfast table when you turn to your morning paper, or maybe it's a story which only get to later in the day: that is, unless you "chomp your way through" those first 93 pages super-fast. Just saying!!!!

[Get on with it, Colin! - Ed]

You see, my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I are aiming to move from our home in Malvern, Worcestershire soon, and settle in the area of Liphook, Hampshire in the next couple of months. In Liphook we'll only be about 5 or 6 miles away from our elder daughter Alison, husband Ed and their 3 teenage offspring. As Lois and I are a couple of old codgers, only marginally competent at so-called "independent living", this will be a good insurance or a good "future-proofing", so watch this space!

We've already looked at 7 houses this week currently on the market in the Liphook area. Today we've got another two houses-for-sale to be shown around by an estate-agent, making 9 in all this week. But it's a bit of a hollow show-around really because we already know that house no. 7, which we saw on Wednesday, is the house for us.

House no.7 is a real "doozy", and above all, it's also got our dream-to-fantasy master-bedroom, amongst other fantasy elements. By comparison, the master bedrooms in today's two houses are a bit middling-to-poor in comparison, but we try to be polite about them, a skill we've won prizes for all our lives, but don't tell anyone haha, needless to say (!).

the decidedly underwhelming master-bedrooms

that we see in today's 2 "viewings"

These two master-bedrooms, shown above, pale by comparison with the "doozy" that we saw on Wednesday, with its extensive mirrors and a TV that pops up out of the bed's footboard at the touch of a button. What more could you ask for than that?

But what a crazy world we live in !!!!!